January 2024 GRAY, Georgia – Like many family-owned logging companies, J.D. Gordon Logging, LLC bears the name of its founder, family patriarch John Dawson (J.D.) Gordon. Before becoming a logger, J.D. spent 17 years as a crane operator at the Armstrong mill in...
December 2023 DOUBLE SPRINGS, Alabama – The Tidwell family has marked its signature throughout this private ground on the edge of Bankhead National Forest for four generations, and 24-year-old Grant Tidwell is proud to follow suit as the new kid on the block....
November 2023 PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi – Even before Drew Massey, 36, started his companies, Massey Timber LLC and Massey Timber Transportation, LLC, it seemed he was destined for a life connected to the forest products business one way or another. Read...
October 2023 UNION, South Carolina – Some of us work to make a living. Chad Barfield, 52, has worked to make a life—a good life, not just for himself, but for his employees and especially for his son, Conner, as well. Having started working in the woods when he...
September 2023 BRISTOL, Florida – Even though he was born in a U.S. Army base hospital in Heidelberg, Germany while his father was stationed there during his time in the service, there was never any doubt in Henry Green’s mind that his place in this world was...
August 2023 NEWBERRY, South Carolina – Bud West, 63, and his son Matt, 32, can trace their roots in the timber industry back 100 years, when Bud’s grandfather, Herman “Bull” West, started logging in the mountains of western North Carolina in the 1920s, with a...
